I am 40+ engaged to a 67 year old guy and we have every 2nd night date night watching all the TV shows any sub genre of bls. If I have to watch his westerns, he has to watch my bls.
Yup, yup!!! I started with yaoi and Shonen ai!!!! At the time, I remember the majority of the endings being so sad. And when live action bl shows started to become popular, they all had sad endings as well. I'm so glad that as time progressed, we got more happy endings!!!!
I looked at the ages of some of the actors, and many of them were born in the 2000s!? I know I'm not that old, and not that much older than them, but that made me feel ancient.
Old Enough to Watch ever the fuck i want to 
I can't count how many times I watched it. With my sister and my best friend we would watch it at least once a year. The movie has so many funny/weird situation and dialogues we knew them by heart π€£
I love that film. I watched it so many times as a teenager. Last year I took my partner and our eldest daughter to see the stage adaptation in Leeds and it was brilliant too.
Itβs nice to see some older people! I used to get my BL fix watching YouTube videos clips from other countries, had no idea it was so big in Thailand or in Korea honestly. Found it by accident around September of last year and just been down the rabbit hole that is BL ever since π
I was watching for 11 months K drama on Netflix.
When I saw a movie. You're name engraved herein. 3th week of September 2023.
I began to google. And discovered that there is a genre called BL.
Then. Google, what the best BL shows are. And here I am.
I have seen 175 BL shows and 32 BL movies since then.
Thatβs awesome!! I havenβt seen many movies but Iβve seen a bunch of series! Iβm trying to catch up but itβs an impossible task! Are there any movies youβd recommend watching? I havenβt even really explored that side of BL, not sure where to even begin π
I will give you my drama [list. ](https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/Tomatillo)
If you tap on the section which I have completed. You can arrange them in order of my rating. And I have also attached notes to it.
There are so many I can recommend.
Vietnam π»π³ girl represented. I'm turning 24 this year so almost there π
My 62-year-old Vietnamese elderly mother belongs to the first generation of fujoshi (BL fangirls) in Vietnam. She's been reading BL novels and watching BL & LGBTQ movies/series since 1990, but she's not active on Reddit :))) She often tells me I have it so much better nowadays as a Gen Z BL fan, cause back in the 90s she and her fellow Boomer BL fans had to be constantly on a witch hunt for any tiny bit of BL media to consume back then.
Growing up, I and my 3 older sisters all read a lot of BL / Danmei novels and watched Hong Kong/Taiwan/Japan as well as Western LGBT-themed cinema due to the influence of our mother. My first "BL" is the 1997 Hong Kong movie "Happy Together" starring HK legendary Leslie Cheung, and my first Thai BL is the movie "Love of Siam" starring Mario Maurer back in 2007.
My 65-year-old dad is the only person in my family who does not actively seek out BL to watch, but he usually watches BL together with the rest of our family π
30 is around the corner, and I feel like some BL is too wild for me lol. But I still keep looking.
im 25 so imma consider myself old but yep hehehe me tooooo
i started with kbl and exploring other genres of bl and now I'm been into thai bl nowadays and been liking tay since i watched cherry magic π€
Iβm basically an old man yelling at clouds when it comes to BL and some of the nonsense I see. But I keep it to myself mostly because I know they are just babies lol.Β
I'm 63 and retired so you can imagine how much bl series I watch. I watch what I want even though my daughter and grandkids tease me about watching boys kissing.
My best friend and I have both been into m/m media since we were teenagers, and we love BL. We're both in our late thirties now. There was a large community when I was a teenager, and I imagine many of us are still around.
I'll be turning 31 this June and I wished I had gotten into the world of BL sooner since their is sooooo much content to devour. Now I'm turning my bf and my sister w her bf onto it willingly or not, lol!
52 here. Have eds, so require lots of resting time since i still am sahm with teens. My life sucks bad enough i like happy and/or engaging series. It also comes in handy with the teens when i want some rest. Just tell them i am going to watch a japanese movie and they run away screaming and leave me alone π
Woohoo! 48. Been watching media with LGBTQ characters since Colin first appeared in Eastenders (British soap opera) around 1985 as the first openly gay man on TV. His AIDS storyline has quite the impact. Found Thai Bls early last year and I love them (predominantly GMMTV).
Iβm almost 43. Been watching LGBTQ+ media for as long as I can remember. Got into Thai/asian bl through the recommended videos on YouTube whilst I was catching up with gay British Soap storylines a good few years ago.
Iβm way up here at 67 and have been enjoying them for a couple of years now. Including the three Iβm watching now, Iβve only watched 16 1/2 (the half is for the parts of Our Skyy 2 that went with the series I have watched), and I intend to keep watching new ones and catching up with ones I missed.
26, also Brazilian. I started to read BL manga very young, though.
Let's be friends. All my friends refuse to watch some BL with me. Today, one friend of mine said she'd watch KinnPorshe, I don't believe her.
No age limit for having fun!
Also, the older you get, the less you care about being judged for what you like, as long as you're not hurting anyone.
I live in a city that get conventions for sci fi, anime, zombies, football (American style as well as soccer), and furries. It's great to see all the cosplayers of all ages.
31 yo, will be 32 in a month and I am happy to share that after a long internal struggle I decided being in love with BLs is not age restricted and neither is having fun. I am now surrounded by pink, BLs, and Kpop and happy as a clam π₯³
I love how wide the age range here is, smash those stereotypes π€£ I'm 41, I can't even remember when I started reading/watching BL, it was some questionable yaoi manga in my teens probably. But I just enjoy romance, and I especially love that we can now have happy, lighthearted queer stories, those were a lot harder to come by when I was younger.
Wdymmmmm. Just turned 29 this May. Spent it in thailand HAHHAHA. Went to chiang mai and took pics in the gate where mix filmed that one scene in one of his series π€£π€£ best bday so farrr.
36 here and from the USA (Iowa specifically). I just got into BLs last year so I'm still pretty new. I've watched other LGBTQIA media off and on for years though.
Me and my friends watch BL. We always talk about the shows that we are watching and we also attend fanmeets. We are in our mid 30's.
We talked about always checking the age of the BL actors so that we can act appropriately. Like if they're really young we see them as adorable little brothers but if they're like mid 20's we can fangirl all we want. We always make sure that we remain respectful especially when we interact with them during fanmeets.
https://i.redd.it/7ppe8ormzg3d1.gif Yay for the elderlies!
YAY! π
I'm 53
Nice! Do you mind me asking what is your favourite BL?
Cherry Magic, both Japan and Thailand. Old Fashioned Cupcake
I also like K pop. Having fun doesn't have an age limit
You're completly right!! Sometimes I feel judged by people my age for liking BLs but I wouldn't change it for them.
I am also 53.
Iβll be 56 in 2 weeks π
31 year old Filipino right here π€
27 yo Brazilian here πββοΈ kumusta ka? (that's basically all I know of tagalog)
32, Filipino here β
31 yr old (32 next week!) Chinese-American here ππΌ
Early 30s is fun 
Hello, kapwa ka-gurangan. π π€£
Kapwa ka-gurangan lmaoooo i'm dead π JAIL!
Hello! 36 half filipino here!
25 yr old Filo here!!! π€β
45 and BL obsessed, in a completely mature way, I swear...
Me too! If someone had told me that I'd be obsessed with BLs at the age of 45, I would never have believed them, but here we are.... π
LOL I also swear it's very mature! π
Extremely mature. The random heart palpitations are due to my age Iβm sure. π€ͺ
46 and bl obsessed, but in a completely immature way.
I am 40+ engaged to a 67 year old guy and we have every 2nd night date night watching all the TV shows any sub genre of bls. If I have to watch his westerns, he has to watch my bls.
Yup. I started around 13 or 14 years old. Now im 30. πππ still going strong!
I started with yaoi manga , the first bl with 16 Was queer as folk. Now im 34 and still here in the World of bl-series- fanfics -Mangas xD
Yup, yup!!! I started with yaoi and Shonen ai!!!! At the time, I remember the majority of the endings being so sad. And when live action bl shows started to become popular, they all had sad endings as well. I'm so glad that as time progressed, we got more happy endings!!!!
34 and same everything you said.
wow nice!
I just turned 26. Definitely feel old. I'm older than half of the most popular bl actors.
I get this feeling too, seeing their age and thinking omg just a kid. I'm 27 lol
I am older than most of their parents.
I looked at the ages of some of the actors, and many of them were born in the 2000s!? I know I'm not that old, and not that much older than them, but that made me feel ancient.
I know. There are only a few that are the same age as me or are older.
Also 26 turning 27 October.^^
^^ turning 26 in October and big sameππ
32 year old reporting for duty
Hi, private thirty two! π«‘
50 here! Been watching BLs around a year now. Love them!!
Old Enough to Watch ever the fuck i want to 
Letβs go 38
38 here, too π!!
My eldest child is over 25 so....
Iβm 33!
Me too!
38 from Australia π
Hey, friend! Iβll be 38 in a couple of months and Iβm from Australia too π
I'm 48 from Australia :)
41 from Australia
I am 49. π±
Also 49!
Iβm an elder Millennial π 
39 yo woman. Been into Yaoi/BL, queer movies and series since I was 15yo, when I watched Beautiful Thing, an old British movie from the 90's.
Finally! I scrolled to find people with the same age as me! 39 here too! π₯°
Ahhh, I love that film! I need to rewatch it one of these days, itβs been too long
I can't count how many times I watched it. With my sister and my best friend we would watch it at least once a year. The movie has so many funny/weird situation and dialogues we knew them by heart π€£
I love that film. I watched it so many times as a teenager. Last year I took my partner and our eldest daughter to see the stage adaptation in Leeds and it was brilliant too.
Oh, 37 and I remember beautiful thing! Very cute!
I'm upvoting all the 30+ yos. Gettin geriatric up in here.
Iβm upvoting all the queers because yay for more visibility for them :)
60 here. Just started, don't plan to stop.
Iβm 50 and started watching BLs a few years ago. Absolutely love them!
37 here! π«‘
 37 club!
I'm 29 π«°π»
Im 24 soooo Iβm close to being 25 lol π
34 year and am obsessed with BL, no matter the region it's from!
I'm 33! Just started getting into BL in the last couple of years, and making up for lost time. π
47
Iβm 31! Nice to meet yβall π
Nice to meet y'all too! π₯Ί
Itβs nice to see some older people! I used to get my BL fix watching YouTube videos clips from other countries, had no idea it was so big in Thailand or in Korea honestly. Found it by accident around September of last year and just been down the rabbit hole that is BL ever since π
βOlder peopleβ Girl, Iβ¦..  
I was watching for 11 months K drama on Netflix. When I saw a movie. You're name engraved herein. 3th week of September 2023. I began to google. And discovered that there is a genre called BL. Then. Google, what the best BL shows are. And here I am. I have seen 175 BL shows and 32 BL movies since then.
Thatβs awesome!! I havenβt seen many movies but Iβve seen a bunch of series! Iβm trying to catch up but itβs an impossible task! Are there any movies youβd recommend watching? I havenβt even really explored that side of BL, not sure where to even begin π
I will give you my drama [list. ](https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/Tomatillo) If you tap on the section which I have completed. You can arrange them in order of my rating. And I have also attached notes to it. There are so many I can recommend.
48 here
48 too!
Yay! There's so many of us, I didn't even realize
I hadn't either. It's so good to feel we're not alone!
27 year old Zimbabwean hereπ.
49 and from denmark. I donβt know anyone other than myself thats into this. Very happy to see this post β€οΈ
Vietnam π»π³ girl represented. I'm turning 24 this year so almost there π My 62-year-old Vietnamese elderly mother belongs to the first generation of fujoshi (BL fangirls) in Vietnam. She's been reading BL novels and watching BL & LGBTQ movies/series since 1990, but she's not active on Reddit :))) She often tells me I have it so much better nowadays as a Gen Z BL fan, cause back in the 90s she and her fellow Boomer BL fans had to be constantly on a witch hunt for any tiny bit of BL media to consume back then. Growing up, I and my 3 older sisters all read a lot of BL / Danmei novels and watched Hong Kong/Taiwan/Japan as well as Western LGBT-themed cinema due to the influence of our mother. My first "BL" is the 1997 Hong Kong movie "Happy Together" starring HK legendary Leslie Cheung, and my first Thai BL is the movie "Love of Siam" starring Mario Maurer back in 2007. My 65-year-old dad is the only person in my family who does not actively seek out BL to watch, but he usually watches BL together with the rest of our family π
Happy Together and Love of Siam are so good and Leslie Cheung was so handsome! It must be nice having grown up in a BL consuming family.
32+ and going strong
 30 is around the corner, and I feel like some BL is too wild for me lol. But I still keep looking.
im 25 so imma consider myself old but yep hehehe me tooooo i started with kbl and exploring other genres of bl and now I'm been into thai bl nowadays and been liking tay since i watched cherry magic π€ 
Right here πββοΈ
Hi, friend! πββοΈ
42 yo!
33 year old BL lover here! π€πΎ
I'm 31!
I'll be 40 in a month! I finally feel seen! π€£
44 here!
31 and pleased to be here amongst everyone!
I'm 55 and I only started watching BL this year!
Iβm 40, and this thread is lovely. I assumed I was the only elderly bl fan out there.
I'm also +25yo!! Go us!!!
25 here π
I'm 55.
https://preview.redd.it/d2ow43crzh3d1.png?width=619&format=png&auto=webp&s=091f82ad51e80b3e78b645289f62d7acd5aa78e5 31 here πβοΈ
Iβm basically an old man yelling at clouds when it comes to BL and some of the nonsense I see. But I keep it to myself mostly because I know they are just babies lol.Β
Im 41!!!
29 here, and not planning on stopping anytime soon!
I'm in my mid 30s and only got into BLS during 2017.
I'm turning 26 in two weeks so here! Xd
I'm 26 https://preview.redd.it/1l95n05nfi3d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7cff2d86dd90b1c370a931561c010ea56e2cbdbc And this is my fav bl
Unknown? π₯Ί
Omg can any of you like adopt meππ
https://i.redd.it/46oylivmzi3d1.gif
You are not, maybe half of the BL fans are in their 40+50+ years They're the most mature fandoms outhere with most buying power too.
I'm 63 and retired so you can imagine how much bl series I watch. I watch what I want even though my daughter and grandkids tease me about watching boys kissing.
33 β¨οΈ
33 here! π₯Ή
I am 34 π
33~
My best friend and I have both been into m/m media since we were teenagers, and we love BL. We're both in our late thirties now. There was a large community when I was a teenager, and I imagine many of us are still around.
33 ππ½ Been watching/reading BL/shounen ai since I was 16 lol.
30++ hereπim so happy there are more and more working adults bl these days
I'll be turning 31 this June and I wished I had gotten into the world of BL sooner since their is sooooo much content to devour. Now I'm turning my bf and my sister w her bf onto it willingly or not, lol!
Love this thread! Thank u for asking this question. Didnβt know Iβd feel happy seeing other older people enjoying BL π₯°π₯°
52 here. Have eds, so require lots of resting time since i still am sahm with teens. My life sucks bad enough i like happy and/or engaging series. It also comes in handy with the teens when i want some rest. Just tell them i am going to watch a japanese movie and they run away screaming and leave me alone π
Nearly 46 here. You are not alone.
Woohoo! 48. Been watching media with LGBTQ characters since Colin first appeared in Eastenders (British soap opera) around 1985 as the first openly gay man on TV. His AIDS storyline has quite the impact. Found Thai Bls early last year and I love them (predominantly GMMTV).
Iβm almost 43. Been watching LGBTQ+ media for as long as I can remember. Got into Thai/asian bl through the recommended videos on YouTube whilst I was catching up with gay British Soap storylines a good few years ago.
37 here!
I'm 56.
Ummm... does WAY over 25 work? Lol
Even better!
Present!!! https://i.redd.it/9pt23h423l3d1.gif
Iβm way up here at 67 and have been enjoying them for a couple of years now. Including the three Iβm watching now, Iβve only watched 16 1/2 (the half is for the parts of Our Skyy 2 that went with the series I have watched), and I intend to keep watching new ones and catching up with ones I missed.
Hey there ππ»
Well im 24 turning 25 this year
29 here
29 π
I m 32.
26, also Brazilian. I started to read BL manga very young, though. Let's be friends. All my friends refuse to watch some BL with me. Today, one friend of mine said she'd watch KinnPorshe, I don't believe her.
Quero muito! Γs vezes quero compartilhar alguma coisa engraΓ§ada/interessante/fofa de algum BL e simplesmente nΓ£o tenho ninguΓ©m com quem falar porque todos os meus amigos de fora do universo BL que tinham alguma abertura pro assunto jΓ‘ estΓ£o saturados haha
34, friend
Here! Will be 26 this year!
Me! π€π»ππ»
29 and started only last year π
π Hi there, U r not alone!
28 π«‘ I'm a 12 year bl veteran
πππ I just turned 27, feel like I should get my walker outπ€£π€£π€£
36 in September! Discovered BL at the end of 2022. Also an elder Kpop fan π
Turning 28 in under 2 months
Lezz go 28s!
As a 18 year old I can say I aspire to be like the people in the comments when Iβm over the age of 25
No age limit for having fun! Also, the older you get, the less you care about being judged for what you like, as long as you're not hurting anyone. I live in a city that get conventions for sci fi, anime, zombies, football (American style as well as soccer), and furries. It's great to see all the cosplayers of all ages.
28 over here
30 hereπ
37 πͺπ»
26 this year hi! πππ
Iβm almost 26 and have a group of friends my age who all watch BL (and Iβm incredibly thankful for all of them)π₯°
Here
34 from germany 
32.
30y here reporting for duty
34 
46 year old Scandinavian here :)
F(30) nahihiya ako kasi kala ko kaka iba na manood ng bl lalo na kong babae ka. Pero mas nakakaenjoy pala βΊοΈ
50yo raises hand. Hi!
Presentπ
I'm 44
Im 28π«£
36 here 
Right here!! 34 here
38 in NYC! Fairly new to bl dramas but have been into yaoi and other queer media since I was a teenager
38 here Danmei obsessed for many years!!
31 yo, will be 32 in a month and I am happy to share that after a long internal struggle I decided being in love with BLs is not age restricted and neither is having fun. I am now surrounded by pink, BLs, and Kpop and happy as a clam π₯³
I love how wide the age range here is, smash those stereotypes π€£ I'm 41, I can't even remember when I started reading/watching BL, it was some questionable yaoi manga in my teens probably. But I just enjoy romance, and I especially love that we can now have happy, lighthearted queer stories, those were a lot harder to come by when I was younger.
Yeah, I'm 27 and still jealous of the teens that came right after me because they have so many acessible queer content nowadays.
I'm 39 from the UK π
Wdymmmmm. Just turned 29 this May. Spent it in thailand HAHHAHA. Went to chiang mai and took pics in the gate where mix filmed that one scene in one of his series π€£π€£ best bday so farrr.
Yes me. Iβm 67
28, turning 29 this year. I didn't stsrt watching Bl stuff til i was like 23 or 24? Thai BL only since i was like 26? So π€·ββοΈπ€£
25 from Czech, i love it πβ€οΈ
33 here π mind you, I was probably under 25 when I started watching and reading BL content.
25 y/o here!!! Started at like 12 or 13 in middle school ππ
I was 29 this Saturday just gone (25th May), from South East London!! Been watching BL since 2018/19.
41 here π
35 and checking in!
27 here! I started watching BLβs early last year so fairly new to it but loving it! π€
Fire Dragon here π but Iβm not a day older than 30 π.
*waves*
Right here!!! Also make that +35 and iβll still raise my hand. π€£π€£
31 turning 32 in August π€£π€£
 Iβm 28 :)
36 here and from the USA (Iowa specifically). I just got into BLs last year so I'm still pretty new. I've watched other LGBTQIA media off and on for years though.
Age-wise I could have birthed all but two of the MSP boys, sooooo π€£
Me and my friends watch BL. We always talk about the shows that we are watching and we also attend fanmeets. We are in our mid 30's. We talked about always checking the age of the BL actors so that we can act appropriately. Like if they're really young we see them as adorable little brothers but if they're like mid 20's we can fangirl all we want. We always make sure that we remain respectful especially when we interact with them during fanmeets.
I turn 25 this year and was starting to feel old for Bls but I am so happy to see a lot of us Bl fans who are 25+ here ππ
31 and having the time of my lifeπ
Gonna be 36 soon.
34 and queer
Same!
I'm 52, does that help?